Weinberg: Die Passagierin

Grazer Philharmoniker;
Kluttig, Roland

2.110713

Nadja Stefanoff, Soprano
Dshamilja Kaiser, Mezzo-soprano
Will Hartmann, Tenor
Markus Butter, Baritone
Chor der Oper Graz
Nadja Loschky, Stage director

Mieczysław Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family’s ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz’s autobiographical novel. The score was praised by Shostakovich for its ‘beauty and greatness’, with a narrative that unfolds on an ocean liner bound for Brazil on which a former Auschwitz guard and one of her Polish prisoners confront impossible moral conflict and harrowing flashbacks in music that is sparse, dark, sardonic and intermittently tender. This acclaimed Oper Graz production draws us movingly into the raw unimaginable madness of this imperishable moment in history.

DVD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

04-07-2022

747313571352